Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-19
SHERiRFS PROCLAMATION.
FOR SPECIAL ELECTION IN MINGoNA TOWN
SHIP. BARBER COUNTY, KANSAS.
} voters of Mingona Towndhip:

To the voters OF Mingona Towndhip:
WHEREAS on the 18th day OF January, 1887
the Board OF county Commissioners of Bar
Der county, state of Kansas, being convened
in special session In the office OF the County
Clerk of said comfy, at the city of Medicine
Lodge, the countyseat CT said county, pursu-
ant to the statutes in such case made and
provided did make and enter on recorl the
following order. to-wit-
WHEREAS petition signed by James Woods
and forty-three others. being more than two
nfths OF the resident taxpayers, of MingOna
Township, Barber county, state of Kansas,
was on this 18th day of January, A. ID. 1881.
presented to the Board of County Commits
sioners. of said county, there being present
w. w. Cook. chairman OF said board. and
John McGrath, and ]. ID. Fleming, members
thereof and K. J. Talisferro. County Clerk.
OF said county, and ex-officio clerk of said
board, which said petition with the sigma
lures thereto omitted is in the words and
figures following to-wit:
RAILROAD BOND PETITION.
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COUNTY CoM-
MssIoNERs or THE COUNTY OF BARBER, IN
THE STATE OF KANSAS.
The undersigned being more than two-dfths
of the resident taxpayers, of Mingona town
Kansas, respectfully pray your honorable
body to submit to the qualified electors of
said township, a proposition to subscribe
stock, OF the Kansas & Panhandle Railroad
Company, q corporation, created and existing
under and by virtne of the laws of the state
llne Of railroad into and through said town
ship. And that in payment for said su bscrip-
ton of said stock, bonds OF said township
shall be issued in sums Of one-thousand dol.
lars each, payable In thirty years from date
of issue. with interest payable semi-annually,
az the rate of six per cent. per annum, on the
July, OF each and every year, until said prin-
cipal shall become due; and said bonds shall
have attached thereunto semi-annual inter
pal and interesu shall be payable at the nscti
agency Of the state of Kansas, in the city If
New York, in the state of New York.
ton TO the capital stock shall be made. are
that the said Railroad Company, shall con-
s struct and operate and maintain said rail-
some point on the north or east side OF
said township and running thence
operation on or before the sist day Of Deem n
Der, A. d. 1881, and erect and maintain q I.
pot and station, with side track, I'm said town
(K1 Of q mile of the intersection OF FfsnkIn
Avenue and Main street, In the town OF Nil
And We further pray that you order . spe-
cfal election, TO be held In said township, In
pursuance OF chapter 105 OF the laws Of 1876.
and the acts OF the Legislature Of the state Of
the question of subscribing for said stock a.
aforesaid And the form OF the ballots 20 be
used at such.electiOn and for such proposition,
DO" For subscription to stock OF the KAN - q
Panhandle Railroad Company" and those
against such proposition. 20 DO Against
subscription 20 stock or the Kansas 4 Pam
handle Railroad Company.
AND WHEREAS said Board Of County Com
mlssioners have examined said petition, and
it having been shown to the satisfaction OF
said board that entd petition has 0eeh signed By
more than two-dfths OF the resident faxpay-
era. in said township. and % In the form pre-
ecrtocd BY law and II IN al respects regular
and legal and said board 90 finds and declares.
NOW TnEREFoRB, pursuant 70 the prayer
OF said petition and the statutes IL such case
the Board OF County Commissicners' OF ssia.
county, that . special election be held
~ the usual voting places I'm said township on
TUESDAY, THE End DAY OF FEBRUARY,
A. ID. 1881.
At which sad election the proposition set
forth In the herfnbefore recited pefitfon-l
which petition, with the signatures thereeo
omitted,1s hcrry made r0t Of this order